‘Fake cop tried to con police officers out of patrol car in Barnet’
Saturday, April 21, 2012
2:00 PM
A man pretending to be a police officer demanded to be given a car by the occupants – not realising it was an unmarked police car, it is alleged.
Scotland Yard said it happened outside a Waitrose supermarket on Ballards Lane in
Finchley, north London, in the early hours of Thursday morning.
A Met police spokesman said: “Allegedly a man stepped on to the pavement, into the way of the car, flagged it down and said: ‘Give me your car, I’m a police officer.’
“They declined to acquiesce and the driver identified himself as a police officer. The incident ended up with a man being arrested and subsequently charged.”
It is claimed there was an altercation while the arrest took place.
A 22-year-old from the Friern Barnet area was charged with interfering with a motor vehicle and two counts of assault on police officers and will appear at Hendon Magistrates’ Court on May 1.
More Crime
- Woolwich attack: Killers named as police shots footage emerges
- Flight attendant charged over alleged Heathrow drugs smuggling
- Woolwich attack: Ex-Met boss calls for public assurances from security services
- Muslims from across country to gather in London to express solidarity against extremism
- Woolwich attack: Killed soldier named as Drummer Lee Rigby, two further suspects arrested
- Woolwich attack: Bloodied man filmed after killing named as Michael Adebolajo
- CCTV appeal after east London train racial abuse
- Gang pair jailed over random teen murder in Tulse Hill
- Woolwich attack: Police search flat in Greenwich
Around the Web See all
London Zoo residents expect summer even if no one else does
Whisper it, but summer could be on its way - at least according to penguins at London Zoo.
0 comments